Brian Leddin (Limerick City, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

To add to Deputy O'Rourke's point, we had a session earlier in the week with housing officials, who were excellent. I want to give them credit for coming in and speaking with us but there was a sense, members found, that they were passing ownership of the very specific critical path of reducing emissions back to the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications. I think it is fair to say we as a committee felt that they needed to have ownership of their path. While excellent policy was certainly being communicated to us, and probably more the medium to longer-term stuff, there was not a sense that they were looking at the numbers as closely as they needed to in order to own the challenge that is there in the built environment sector. Would Deputy O'Rourke say that is fair?